UAW Edges Toward First Toehold in South

Majority of VW Factory's Tennessee Workers Have Signaled Support for Union

By

Neal E. Boudette

Sept. 13, 2013 8:41 a.m. ET

The United Auto Workers union, after suffering years of declining membership and power in Detroit, is moving closer to what could be an unlikely and historic win: organizing its first foreign-owned auto plant in the U.S. South.

UAW President Bob King said on Friday he is confident a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee will be unionized, and is hoping the auto maker will accept the UAW as bargaining partner for the plant's 2,000 assembly...